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(a) category I – arterial roads,
(b) category II – sub-arterial roads,
(c) category III – connected roads,
(d) category IV – local roads, and
(e) category V – pedestrian pathways.
(2) The classification shall be done with due regard to the traffic pattern of a public street and the nature and volume of traffic on it, its existing width, and abutting land uses:
Provided that different names of public streets, which constitute essentially parts of a continuous traffic corridor, shall not come in the way of their inclusion in any particular category.
(3) The Standing Committee shall, from time to time, specify the minimum widths of different categories of public streets without regard to the existing widths of such streets as may be included in such categories:
Provided that the minimum width of any public street included in category I or category II or category III or category IV shall be not less than ten meters including the adjoining footpath, if any, and that of a public street included in category V, shall be not less than six meters:
Provided further that such minimum widths may be revised by the Standing Committee from time to time.
(4) The classification of the public streets in different categories may be revised, from time to time.
407. Compulsory provision of footpaths.
(1) The municipality shall ensure, within a reasonable time, and subject to the availability of resources, that all public streets under category I, category II and category III have raised footpaths adjoining such public streets.
(2) Notwithstanding the existing situation, the Standing Committee shall specify different minimum widths for footpaths which are adjacent to the public streets under category I, category II, or category III so as to be not less than one and a half meters on each side in any case:
Provided that more than one minimum width may be specified for the footpath abutting each category of public street so as to provide for different requirements owing to different abutting land uses:
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Provided further that while prescribing or revising any regular line of a public street, it shall be stipulated that the specifications of minimum width for footpaths shall be complied with.
(3) The minimum widths referred to in sub-section (2) may be revised by the Standing Committee.
408. Naming and numbering of streets and public places.
(1) The municipality shall –
(a) determine the name or number, by which any street or public place vested in it shall be known,
(b) cause to be put up or painted at a conspicuous part of any building, wall or place at or near each end, corner or entrance of such street or some convenient part of such street, the name or number by which it shall be known, and
(c) cause to be put up or painted on boards of suitable size the name of any public place vested in the municipality.
(2) The municipality may, having regard to the hierarchy of the street system, by regulations, specify the norms according to which the streets may be named or numbered.
(3) No person shall destroy, remove, deface, or, in any way, alter any such name or number put up, or paint any name or number different from that put up or painted by order of the municipality.